Breaking the subtitle barrier: South Koreans celebrate historic Oscar wins of 'Parasite'

SEOUL - South Korean social media erupted in celebration on Monday after the dark comedy “Parasite” became the first non-English language movie to win the Best Picture award, already having netted three other Oscars in a historic first for the country.

“I’m ready to drink tonight,” Bong joked, after thanking the cast and staff during his acceptance speech for the International Feature Film award.“Parasite” had also snagged nominations for best production design and best film editing, and had already collected several other international film awards.

“I was so proud as a Korean to hear that a South Korean film defeated so many famous foreign films,” said Chung Su-yoon, a Seoul resident who watched “Parasite” just two hours before the Oscars. One clip making the rounds on South Korean social media mocked a reporter who asked Bong why he shot the film in Korean.

U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris tweeted, “we are doing a watch party at the embassy eating jjapaguri”, referring to the noodle dish the rich family enjoys in the movie.The movie’s distributor, CJ ENM, said it was a “historic moment” that will go down in Korean film history.

Film? Did they actually use film?

East Asia in dilemma whether they’ll pop out and support the gang or stay home with their masks on 💀💀

movie is a great marketing tool for a country it's like basically 1 or 2 hour commercial for one country, which pretty cool

They watch a movie called 'Parasite' wearing face masks... oh they are taking the piss!!

I like the movie, congratulations from Egypt

McDonalds.

It just shows how butt hurt Homewood is that they go outside of their own awards for their own productions to give a foreign film that few if any Americans saw the top award for the American movie industry. They are so woke, lol.

Dark comedy? Lol.....

It's a parasite, the movie about Coronavirus?

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